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palm-tree|ˈpɑːmtriː|
a. A tree of the family Palmaceæ or Palmæ: = palm n.1 1.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. John xv. 4 Suæ ðio palm-treo [L. palmes] ne mæᵹe ᵹebrenge uæstem from him seolfum buta ᵹeuuniᵹa in winᵹearde. c1000ælfric Exod. xv. 27 Þær wæron twelf wyllas and hundseofontiᵹ palmtreowa. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3305 An ten and sexti palme tren bi ðo welles men miȝte sen. a1300Cursor M. 11660 A palme tre sco sagh hir bi. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. iv. 147 Some allowe, that the water be drawen out wyth the woode of a palmetre, or drye elder. 1634Jackson Creed viii. xviii. §6 The palmtree..was as true an embleme or hieroglyphick of righteousnesse or justice, as the sword is of authority, and power. 1842Longfellow Slave's Dream ii, Beneath the palm trees on the plain Once more a King he strode.
b. Applied popularly to other trees: see palm n.1 4.
1653Walton Angler iii. 92 You see some Willows or Palm trees bud and blossome sooner then others do. 1736Pegge Kenticisms, Palm-tree, a yew-tree. 1887Kentish Gloss. s.v., There is, in..Woodnesborough, a public-house called ‘The Palm-tree’, which bears for its sign a clipped yew tree.
c. attrib. Also Comb., as palm-tree justice, justice summarily administered, usu. with little regard for legal principle or precedent (with reference to the Islamic cadi (see cadi) administering justice under a palm-tree: see also quot. 1634 in sense a).
1781Smeathman in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 167 note, The caterpillar or maggot of the Palm-tree Snout-beetle, Curculio Palmarum, which is served up at all the luxurious tables of the West Indian epicures..as the greatest dainty of the Western world. 1802Southey Thalaba v. Notes, Wks. 1838 IV. 210 Houses made of palm-tree branches. [1916A. Underhill in Shakespeare's England I. xiii. 383 In Shakespeare's time the Court of Chancery was almost as unfettered by precedent as the typical Cadi under the Palm Tree.] 1959Sunday Times 24 May 5/4 What are the origins and associations of the phrase..‘palm-tree justice’, which has recently been used several times by Her Majesty's Judges in legal contexts? 1963Times 7 May 9/2 It would be perhaps rather hard luck for Simpson's now to have to part with their North Road site at prices which no longer represented modern prices. It would be no more than palm-tree justice. 1968Economist 3 Feb. 42/3 In this period the [Roman] emperors themselves considered the letters that came up to them and dictated their answers personally: palm-tree justice was still obtainable. |